Top 203 Imitating Quotes & Sayings

I think when people talk about art imitating life, you're in real time.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.

Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.

It's not imitating anything; it has become a better version of itself.

A lot of things you just stumble into: relationships or ways of putting characters opposite one another that really worked. So then it's not always so much about imitating other people, but imitating yourself, at least in your thinking.

Be creative. Men only learnt how to fly when they stopped imitating birds.

Now life is imitating art.

To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.

It is as well not to have too great an admiration for your master's work. You will be in less danger of imitating him.

When you use a dialect, you worry that the people you're imitating will think you're making fun of them.

Miley is always on, she’s always funny, she’s always writing songs, she’s always making music. The parallel of the film is like Miley says, going back to her home, going back to her roots. Getting back to Tennessee was art imitating life imitating art.

You don't want to be imitating his style. Every anime-maker is thinking, 'I can't be too like Miyazaki.'

I try to not listen to all the girls I admire musically - like Nina Simone - just so I don't find myself imitating them, even if it's subconsciously.

That's one of the problems in being a songwriter and living a long time. What you eventually end up doing is you start imitating yourself.

We need to stop imitating the West and looking there for inspiration.

People are in a hurry to magnify themselves by imitating what is popular- and too lazy to think of anything better.

My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.

Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.

After two takes you're imitating yourself.

I have been a racist since 1921. I don't know how they can think I'm imitating Hitler.

Every writer knows that when you're imitating somebody - you know, you're sounding like Faulkner - you're doing pretty good, but your life in Hoboken isn't Faulkneresque.

Black musicians were imitating speech cadences, and Kerouac was imitating the black musicians' breath cadences on their horns and brought it back to speech. It always was speech rhythms or cadences as far as the ear that Kerouac was developing. All passed through black music.

Salvation lies in imitating Christ, in other words, in imitating the 'withdrawal relationship' that links him with his Father... To listen to the Father's silence is to abandon oneself to his withdrawal, to conform to it.

When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating people. You need to be imitating how they make their work, how they structure it, how they design the pieces. It gives you chops; it gives you moves.

The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.

The more time we invest imitating others, the less that's available to discover and be ourselves.

I loved old movies. And I like imitating people.

You must understand the feeling of originating as opposed to imitating.

You can't imitate; all our faces are constructed differently... and the vocal cords; otherwise, we'd all sound alike. I don't think anybody should ever teach by imitating.

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.

There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

I have good pronunciation no matter what language I speak. Maybe it’s because my specialties are rapping and imitating others

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him.

Unless we learn the lesson of self-appreciation and practice it, we shall spend our lives imitating other people and deprecating ourselves.

Kids will use their own system at the stage that they are, they're not (learning merely by) imitating you.

No one repeats a word I say without imitating my voice; it drives me out of my... mind.

I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model.

I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.

That was how I had developed my singing style in the first place - imitating other singers like George Michael and Richard Marx.

I grew up with my friends, wrestling around, imitating guys like Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio, Chris Jericho, Dean Malenko.

Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.

I guess historically, drag queens were imitating movie stars and luminaries. It's kind of nice to have a movie star imitating a drag queen.

If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer. However, you should be conscious of exactly how you are imitating him - word choice, sentence structure, motifs? - and think about why you're doing it.

Art imitating life and life imitating art, and it's beyond the job - it will always be a marked period in my life.

I used to try to bully my friends into imitating the Spice Girls on the playground.

I've never really heard anybody imitating anything of mine the way they do with Edward Van Halen's stuff.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

The true smoker abstains from imitating Vesuvius.

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.

Everyone has a different appearance, so blindly imitating fashion trends does not make you look better.

So while you're imitating Al Capone, I'll be Nina Simone And defecating on your microphone.

Nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.

Now, we're just imitating and imitating and imitating what we've done before. The real revolution on how we make clothes and how we wear clothes is about to come. I don't know if we should be afraid or not. That's when we're going to see a Steve Jobs in the industry.

What works for the person you're imitating may not work for you.

Yes, I think I have the best swing on the Tour. Why have scores comedown in the last ten years? Partly because they are imitating me.

The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.

When I was growing up... I'm not going to say I listened to everything, but when it comes to vocals, I was really adamant about imitating all kinds of voices.